Patch Town
Up From The Ashes
© 2015 by Robert Parlante
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ISBN: 978-1-62020-536-5
eISBN: 978-1-62020-466-5
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And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
—Hebrews 10:24, NIV
Patch Town: Up From the Ashes is dedicated to my wife, our three children and their spouses, and our nine grandkids. May we all be an inspiration to each other. And may the Lord continue to spur us all toward love and good deeds.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Time to Sing the Song Again
Chapter 2: Repast and the Future
Chapter 6: Standing Back-to-Back
Chapter 8: The Moment of Truth
Chapter 11: Christmas Eve at the Lake House
CHAPTER 1
TIME TO SING THE SONG AGAIN
For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.
~ 2 Corinthians 5:1-2, NLT
Martin pulled his Buick Regal into an empty parking spot in front of Abney’s Hardware, located across the street from Nettie’s Floral Shoppe. He saw Rueben Abney sweeping the sidewalk in front of his hardware store and then repositioning a bushel of curved-neck autumn gourds and decorative corn closer to the front door. Thanksgiving was days away, and it looked like Rueben was trying to encourage as much impulse buying as possible. Martin waved at the hardware store owner, who was wearing denim coveralls. All Rueben needed was a pitchfork to complete the vintage scene out of American Gothic.
Rueben’s mercantile establishment made customers feel like they were browsing through a historical artifact museum. The store still sold hard-to-find items. You could buy every bolt and screw, doodad and thingamajig, or tool imaginable, as well as find every type of gardening or animal care product. And if Rueben did not stock the item, he would do his best to find it somewhere else.
Over a century old, the store still retained reminders of its past with a well-worn wood floor and a big-bellied stove, that when burning was a welcome place to sit and exchange stories on cold blustery days. Even a 1920s-era ...
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About Patch Town: Up From The AshesSomeone is trying to harm Martin Gilmore. First a white jalopy with a missing tailgate tries to run him down. He encounters road rage involving a dark blue van. Then an oversized black truck stalks him for the final kill. As Martin follows clues leading to the suspected killer, he receives startling news. His young daughter Ruthie faces a diagnosis of breast cancer. Martin’s world collapses, having lost his wife three years earlier to cancer. And now will Ruthie face a similar nightmare? Employed by a real estate development company, Martin is drawn into a web of corporate deceit as Ruthie’s illness overwhelms him, and the killer zeroes in on him. Martin must confront hard choices: be a supportive dad to Ruthie, try to live as an ethical believer, and deal with his feelings for his friend Linda. In the end, Martin faces an inferno of hatred where his life hangs in balance and his trust in God is challenged. |
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